Example sentences of "[verb] itself to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The guide took his place at centre stern and , after the raft had turned in a circle to adjust itself to the current , the paddling rhythm set in to send it down-river towards the white foam that could be seen rising between the distant boulders . |
| 2 | The party committed itself to the defence of " democracy , national identity and sovereignty " . |
| 3 | Arafat had tried to keep his Fatah guerrillas out of the fighting , but when the Phalange and Chamounists laid siege to the Palestinian camps of Karantina and Tel al-Za'atar , the PLO had committed itself to the war on the side of the Muslims and leftists . |
| 4 | ( 3 ) Where the creditor leaves it to the debtor to obtain the signature of a third party surety on documents of guarantee or on documents charging the surety 's principal or important asset , it exposes itself to the possibility of being restrained under applicable equitable doctrines . |
| 5 | The planning sub-committee of Buckinghamshire county council , which meets on Monday to consider the scheme , must inevitably confine itself to the planning application before it , and the planning issues arising from it . |
| 6 | She was too lost in misery , and when she found herself being lifted to her feet embarrassment added itself to the misery . |
| 7 | On 19 December 1960 a new Cuban — Soviet agreement was announced , by which the USSR committed itself to the purchase of 2.7 m.t . |
| 8 | The Commonwealth as a whole committed itself to the promotion of sustainable development and alleviation of poverty , with the more prosperous Commonwealth members promising " an adequate flow of resources " to alleviate the debt burdens of the most needy . |
| 9 | A permanent consultation mechanism was established and the public sector committed itself to the privatization of state enterprises except for certain strategic concerns , and to the substantial reduction of unnecessary bureaucracy , of expenditure and of the public deficit . |
| 10 | The CNAA committed itself to the Diploma . |
| 11 | In October 1984 , The Economist , remarkably enough , committed itself to the view that ‘ Mrs Thatcher is not now going to win the miners ’ strike outright . ’ |
| 12 | In line with Ozawa 's own views the new faction committed itself to the adoption of single-member constituencies in place of the current multi-member system . |
| 13 | The English Courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction to deal with any dispute which has arisen or may arise out of or in connection with this Agreement , unless the Publisher voluntarily submits itself to the jurisdiction of some other tribunal . |
| 14 | The English Courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction to deal with any dispute which has arisen or may arise out of or in connection with this Agreement , unless the Publisher voluntarily submits itself to the jurisdiction of some other tribunal . |
| 15 | The English Courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction to deal with any dispute which has arisen or may arise out of or in connection with this Agreement , unless the Publisher voluntarily submits itself to the jurisdiction of some other tribunal . |
| 16 | Pipeline business is the stuff that you 've sent to head office , been put on the shelf , and has n't issued yet , because of maybe medical in the writing , or there 's complications with it , you know , it 's sat on the shelf , but it has n't actually , the policy has n't wanged itself to the client . |
| 17 | By the end of the 1850s the state had an additional reason for addressing itself to the fate of priests . |
| 18 | In a slow , confused , grudging process of adjustment the Labour Party attuned itself to the fight against fascism , and eventually the need to abandon its emphasis upon political independence . |
| 19 | It has managed to fall flat on its ‘ face ’ after climbing to the very top of the glass and attaching itself to the underside of the small glass shelf that runs along the top , which , by the way , made it almost impossible to feed . |
| 20 | The English Association ( also founded in 1907 ) applied itself to the advancement of the new English within the national culture . |
| 21 | The image of ‘ basket power ’ possessed by women cooperators was a formidable and persistent one , and the guild applied itself to the task of arousing women to a sense of this leverage . |
| 22 | Shove it in a bottle neck , and it springs back , shaping itself to the glass . |
| 23 | The guiding principle of the Okapi research is that the system must adapt itself to the user rather than the converse . |
| 24 | But the basic uncertainty in the mother may well transmit itself to the child and the relationship between the two of them could be off to a shaky start . |
| 25 | Pastiche is a dualistic activity , and it is an activity which can lend itself to the expression of paranoid feelings and unacted desires . |
| 26 | There is some disagreement about the size of the informal proletariat , which is not surprising given that its informal nature does not lend itself to the gathering of statistic , but most commentators see it representing about 40–60 per cent of the economically active population . |
| 27 | And , like mine , it did not lend itself to the sort of conclusion Berkeley wanted to draw , to the effect that we are not justified in calling material things hot and cold . |
| 28 | The loss of full-back Robertson would leave Rangers short in that department but his hamstring injury does not lend itself to the taking of risks . |
| 29 | ‘ I felt there was a simple story at the heart of it , as well as the unusual content of the books , lent itself to the kind of melodramatic theatre I like . ’ |
| 30 | For example , the problem of representing three-dimensional figures in two dimensions lent itself to the splitting of animal forms so that they faced out in both directions , joined by a centre line around the mouth and spine . |